Join us for an author talk and Shabbat dinner with Leah Koenig, author of Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen which features over 100 deeply flavorful recipes and beautiful photographs of Rome’s Jewish community, the oldest in Europe. The evening will include a Shabbat Dinner featuring Leah Koenig’s recipes that showcase the cuisine’s elegantly understated vegetables, saucy braised meats and stews, rustic pastas, resplendent olive oil–fried foods, and never-too-sweet desserts.